by Christine | Apr 20, 2020 | Welcome Column
The music world lost a great treasure a couple of weeks ago when John Prine succumbed to the effects of the new corona virus. Our bluegrass community is feeling the effects perhaps as much as anybody even though Prine was anything but a bluegrass musician. He was...
by Christine | Mar 24, 2010 | Welcome Column
Folks, there ain’t no job that looks so easy as marketing. How hard can it be to do some ads? Put a logo on a billboard? Create a pithy campaign with a simple message (“Think different.”)? How do you judge a good marketing person? I know the answer to that one: if you...
by Christine | Jan 11, 2018 | Welcome Column
In just eight short years the GREAT 48 Jam in Bakersfield has become our largest event after the Fathers Day Festival. The jam starts today, Thursday, and runs through the weekend, and brings equal numbers (in the hundreds) of Southern California and Northern...
by Christine | Jul 11, 2016 | Welcome Column
With the death of Ralph Stanley still leaving the entire bluegrass community in mourning, the time was perfect for the new Junior Sisk and Rambler Choice album “Poor Boys Pleasure”. Since bursting onto the scene with Wyatt Rice, Junior Sisk has been a pillar of the...
by Christine | Jun 30, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Here we are, almost in July. If the rest of festival season is as good as Father’s Day Festival was we’ll be in great shape. Of course things have been rearranged a bit this year, with NCBS’s Good Old Fashioned Festival moving to August, but there are...
